Every organization is different from one another and hence has different necessities, challenges, and methods for running their business. Usually there are a set of performances to carry out before the migration which assist us through the way. Migration generally relies on a set of things which have to be taken care of.

First is the total size of the WebSphere Commerce site to be migrated. The larger the site is, the more work and attempt is to be made. Same is the case with the effort on the customization/creation of the site. And last is the stratum of incorporation with third-party systems.

Phases of Successful Migration

Phase 1: Assessment:
The first step is to carefully assess the system that is to be converted to the WCS7 system. After the assessment has been performed, the data is migrated within the WCS5 system will be converted over to WCS7.

Phase 2: Development:
This phase is the longest phase in the whole migration process. The list of features collected in the previous phase would be converted to Java commands.

Phase 3: Testing:
In this phase the whole program is checked with the aim to provide a flawless product and to avoid the small errors that are created while migrating. This performs a full regression test with the migrated database after Migrating WebSphere Commerce database and WebSphere Commerce application.

Phase 4: Integration:
The integration process consists of small procedures that contain database backups during particular phases of migration to ensure the installed constituents are functioning and responding to the system.

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Companies can make instant and complex business decisions by using IBM WebSphere Operational Decision Management’s powerful Event Processing capabilities. Companies can implement operational business rules to empower business users to adapt, align and act through real-time business decisions automation.

You can use the event processing capabilities, or "intelligence triggers," of ODM to identify key situations based on wide array of sources and applications. ODM can then create actions and respond in the best way possible.

The decision logic in ODM is defined in Event Projects created by IT Architects. Developers can identify initial business situations and determine actions required to identify those situations. After this process, business users can create event rules and event rule groups.

Each situation in ODM is clearly defined in Events Designer. Figure 1 shows presentation of situations in Events Designer as synthetic events.

We are defining two major event situation scenarios in ODM:

Customer Acquisition Situation

Multi Channel Customer Situation

Figure 1

Customer acquisition represents a special situation where a potential customer with a potential revenue stream is rejecting your offered quote. In such scenarios, ODM offers a personalized promotion customized to your customer-specific quote to close the deal.

Multichannel customer situation represents regular customers looking for the best prices on both the website and customer services center. In such scenarios, a customer can be offered a new multichannel policy, so support costs could be lowered and a discount can be offered by ODM.

A natural verbalization is provided to allow situations used by Business Users in their Event rules. This process is embarked through business objects. Figure 2 shows the situation verbalization.

Figure 2

Creating Contextual Situations

To create correlated contextual situations, IT Architects and developers correlate different events and recognize patterns appearing over a period of time.

This information is hidden from business users by mapping the information into business objects using following techniques: field mapping, constant values, JavaScript and database enrichment. The IT Architect defines business objects in Rules designer as shown in Figure 3, so business users can refer to it in event rules while identifying situations.

Figure 3

Mapping Data into Business Objects

Mapping allows Business Object fields required for particular situation identification to be populated in a systematic manner from the information provided in the event.

To map event data to business objects, you need to construct business objects from event objects in QuoteEvent, as shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4

Event Processing using Event Rules

Event processing decision is taken by defining actions in response to a particular pattern of event. In above scenario of customer quotes, there is a requirement to remind the customer if they have not responded to a quote. Such actions are done by creating Event Rules.

In Figure 5, we are creating a new event rule titled “KeepCustomerInterested.” We have defined action parameters in an event rule.

Figure 5

Using Action Technology Connectors to execute Action

After defining the event rule, ODM populates Action Objects for previously created event rule. We created an event rule titled “KeepCustomerInterested” in Figure 6.

Figure 6

A customer reminder is now sent to your website using HTTP protocol with action technology connectors that execute actions in the solution, as shown in Figure 7.

Figure 7

With ODM, these types of complex business decisions are easy to manage and automate.

About the Author

Zeeshan Valliani works for Royal Cyber Inc. as a leading consultant in marketing. He has vast experience with IBM WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Commerce, Java, XML, JavaScript and HTML. Prior to joining Royal Cyber, Zeeshan was a senior consultant for Reliable Accounting Solutions, where he led corporate business development and new client systems. He managed a diverse project portfolio, including market analysis studies, technical writing, product feasibility profiles, and customer satisfaction measurement. Zeeshan is currently pursuing his MBA degree from Institute of Business Management and holds a Master of Arts in Economics degree. He is fluent in several Asian-Indian languages in addition to English and is an active member of IBM DeveloperWorks.

Cloud Applications are booming into IT infrastructure round
the globe delivering greater efficiencies and an opportunity for IT departments
to dedicate themselves to higher value projects. IBM research anticipates that
Global public cloud market will grow to $55.5bn by 2014 reaching the mainstream
IT market. Fifty percent of IT experts are expected to adopt cloud technology
by this year end and it’s not just mid size companies but big organizations are
also moving towards cloud.

To move towards cloud enterprises, big organizations
won’t discontinue all their on-premise applications such as SAP, Oracle and
other traditional apps but integrate both the technologies to enjoy greater
flexibility in application platforms by effectively integrating cloud solutions
with existing systems and applications. It’s a hybrid world and organizations
effectively use the combination of both the technologies to reap greater
benefits. Integration also maximizes the value of cloud investments as there
already are a lot of Public cloud applications available.

The biggest concern about Cloud is the integration of
SAAS (Software-as-a-Service) with existing enterprise applications. IBM®
WebSphere® Cast Iron® encounters this challenge by integrating cloud applications
with on-premise applications, cloud-to-cloud applications, and on-premise to
on-premise applications within matter of days. Such integration is significantly
important for organizations moving to SAAS hosted solution, Gartner research
says.

IBM® WebSphere® Cast Iron® allows organizations to
connect with cloud and on-premise applications by providing rapid connectivity
to all major cloud applications through a graphical development environment
consisting reusable solution templates that can be downloaded from a solution
repository. The integration solutions can run on on-premise appliance or
multi-tenant WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud service. Plus you do not have to worry
about, how integration will work with multiple session management, logging etc
as WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud handles all itself very effectively.

The Impact 2012 session in Las Vegas featured a case study of
Siemens who was facing a challenge of integrating SAP software for ERP with
Salesforce.com, the cloud based CRM service. The ERP data regarding shipment
and order details was not updated on timely basis creating information gap.
Hence, Siemens implemented IBM WebSphere® Cast Iron® Cloud solution, which
provided them preconfigured integrations between Salesforce.com and SAP in just
two weeks.

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With changing patterns in workplace today, organizations require rapid decision making to evolve with the challenges and complexities to make our world little bit easier and controllable to manage and govern.

Putting the power of intelligent decision automation in the hands of business experts, IBM Operational Decision Management is such a software that allows organizations to make instant decisions by providing them with the power to adapt, align and act through real-time decision automation.

IBM Operational Decision Management allows organizations to govern complex decisions in a scalable and systematic way to avoid inconsistent decision making so business executives can be sure that in any context the correct decision is being made.

Using IBM Operational Decision Management, regular business people can actually document and implement operational business rules to a degree that they have never been able to do before.

Operational Decision Management is built upon the power of Business Rules system - The ILOG Rules System that allows organizations to execute, define and scale rules. And it's not just simply applying rules to data, organizations also need to understand the context in which decisions are made to be able to manage those rules and those contexts in increasingly integrated ways.

With IBM Operational Decision Management platform, organizations get the most powerful Complex Event Processing capabilities "intelligence triggers" that allows organizations to make smarter decisions flowing across their business processes.

With powerful features, IBM Operational Decision Management is the only operational decision management platform that actually allows organizations to govern the implementation of decisions in an enterprise class, scalable way.

IBM has announced that it is releasing a newer version of Business Process Manager v8 at IBM Impact 2012 in Las Vegas, NV that comes with IBM Operational Decision Management v8 for turbo changed collaboration.

IBM has the broadest Process Portfolio products in the planet with 20 different kinds of Process Products integrated into one single offering, delivering over 300 capabilities and more than 700 people working in Research & Development across the portfolio.

Below are the highlighted key points of the newer IBM BPM V8:

IBM Operational Decision Management V8

The new IBM Business Process Manager v8 comes with IBM Operational Decision Management that combines business rules and events management to automate and govern a wide range of operational decisions. The V8 of Operational Decision Management comes with a newly redesigned interface that is more user-friendly and provides a seamless experience.

Server Upgrade

The new BPM (Business Process Manager) V8 requires WAS (WebSphere Application Server) V8 which now has a lighter footprint and really ushers IBM to takeover space from JBOSS.

iOS Application

The new IBM BPM V8 application is now also available on Apples iTunes store for download and use with iPhone and iPad with expanded REST/JSON API for mobile application development. This way Process Applications are available to Process Participants on the go.

Integration with Tivoli Identity Manager in Process

Phill Gilbert, VP IBM has also announced that BPM integration with Tivoli Identity Manager is in process that will ease the creation, modification, and termination of user privileges throughout the entire user lifecycle.

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It was another fun filled day 3 in Las Vegas NV at IBM
Impact. The general session began at 8:30am Pacific time and the host of the
show was Don McMillan who holds a diversified portfolio, he is technology
comedian and engineer who engages the audience by telling them about IT terms
in the funniest way.

He then invited Rod Smith, VP Emerging technologies at IBM
to talk about the next wave of computing and how it’s changing the way we live
and work. Smith said that Emerging technologies are enabling new types of
applications for multiple channels including mobile, social and cloud. He
mentioned that in IBM alone there are 12000 employees using mobile to access
different applications.

“Every month people send one billion tweets and post 30
billion messages on Facebook. Mobile Application have become fluid and can be
adjusted to user context based on device, time and location” said Smith
emphasizing on faster applications development saying time to value is the key
factor.

Professor John Taplin from University of South California
came next on stage and talked about his team collaboration with IBM and LA
times. He mentioned Arab Upspring and how an Egyptian student used IBM software
to find which words are being tweeted.

Jane Mcgonial, technology expert talked about her research
on gaming and its huge impact on our lives. She said that there are over 1
billion gamers on the planet playing at least one hour every day. Mcgonial also
shared part of her research saying that games have positive impact on children
battling cancers. She also engages participants in multi player thumb wrestling
game which broke the record with 8000 participants.

Breth Smith, VP IBM talk about new era of messaging. Smith
said that phones have become personal ids and would soon become corporate ids
that would tell us where we are and that one device will soon become
everything. She emphasized on need for a collaborative lifecycle for faster
response time which she says require new processes and business models for a
new era.

Jerry Cuomo, CTO Websphere then came on stage to show the
principles of SOA and its new capabilities. He mentioned the case of Acme
Airlines and how did they have collaborated with IBM for extending APIs to
developers and expand mobile apps to be engaging.

Breth Smith VP IBM then made announcements about the latest
versions of DataPower, MQ and WAS 8.5. She said that DataPower new version
offers extended security exercises over the enterprise level and that the
latest version of MQ provides managed file transfer and advanced messaging
security. The new WAS 8.5 has built in application management capabilities including,
intelligent routing and dynamic clustering. She also said that IBM is 16%
faster than Oracle in equivalent hardware.

Kevin Steele, Senior Director Technology at Cars.com
introduced his company starting with a short documentary. He said that his company
employs 1000 people nationwide including 140 IT professionals. Steele said that
his company was facing frequent outages and issues regarding system monitoring
capabilities and hence they worked with IBM. Omnibus solution helped Cars.com
get data from logs and fix system performance management tools. IBM technology
enabled his company to improve scalability, speed and reliability.

In the end IBM Fellow and CTO Jerry Cuomo invited other
presenters to play a virtual game with their handheld devices. Later on Don
McMillan ended the session with announcements about the coming impact sessions.

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It was a fun filled day two at IBM Impact 2012 general
session here in Las Vegas. The show began at 8:30am Pacific time, the host of
the show was Katie Linendoll who is an Emmy award winning tech expert, Tech show
host at Spike TV and a regular CNN guest commentator.

She began the show with a brief documentary and later
introduced Mr. Johan Gerber Senior Business Leader of Fraud Management
Solutions for MasterCard Worldwide. Johan told the audience about his company
and said that MasterCard does not actually issue the cards but they are a
technology company providing network link to consumers, businesses and card
issuers. They provided powerful endorsement to IBM saying that they have
implemented IBM Decision Management and message handling platform within their
network for fraud detection.

Gerber left the stage with an innovative video about the
future of shopping.

The second speaker of the session was Steve Mills who focused
on transaction processing and said that IBM has a long history in managing
transactions, helping corporation worldwide manage structure and execution of
transactions in complex environments. He also provided the examples of Marriott
Hotel, China Mobile and Sprint who are using IBM platform for faster delivery.

Steve also introduced the audience to IBM Websphere
Transaction Cluster Facility v1.1 with scalable transaction processing
capabilities built keeping in view the criticalities of millions of
transactions that occurs every day. Steve also called this server facility as nothing
else like it in the world today.

Steve said that IBM continues to invest in its transaction
processing capabilities so companies can take gains of modularity and agility
of SOA. He also sees a meticulous focus on integrating mobile, big data and
in-line analytics to the cloud deployment and social media. In the end of his
speech he announced Ace Award Program winners and thanked customers, business
partners and the audience for their business.

Katie Linendoll introduced the next story, The Ottawa
Hospital where they have implemented mobility with iPad devices and unifying
processes in health care through a single console providing doctors with all
the patient history for better patient management.

The next speaker was Phil Gilbert, the VP of BPM and
Decision Management at IBM who presented the demonstration IBM
Decision Center and Business Process Manager Version 8 showing the new collaborative,
social, redesigned decision management interface. He said that BPM mobile
application is also available on iTunes store.

BodyMedia came up next to talk about their new body sensing
device and the associated decision management system. The solution involves an
arm band with four embedded sensors reading 5000 data points per minute.

Bob Suter of IBM came next to introduce IBM Mobile
Foundation suite. He discussed that mobile buzz is everywhere and that people
are incorporating
mobile into their business for secure transactions, manageability and security.
He said that services are available to help companies get started in 60 days.

Lastly VP IBM Global Bridget Van Kralingen, one of 50 most
powerful women in business talked about IBM social business and concluded the
session.

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IBM Impact 2012 opening session begins here in Las Vegas at
8:15am Pacific time in the midst of scattered clouds. The session started with
an introductory video on IBM Pure Systems, a new IBM product helping people
globally improve their lives with the power of IT. Power Systems can access, deploy and manage
applications.

The first speaker of
the session was Walter Isaacson who is the is the president and CEO of the
Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies institute based
in Washington, DC. He has been the chairman and CEO of CNN and the editor of
TIME magazine and is the author of several biographies on Steve Jobs, Einstein,
Benjamin Franklin and Kissinger.

Much of his speech was inspired by Steve Jobs and his
passion for innovation. The presenter shared many of the sayings by Steve Jobs,
he shared that once steve told him that most important thing is not making a
great product but creating a great company. He described innovation,
creativity, inspiration, and imaginative people as the ones who change the
world. “There are lots of smart people
but not so many innovative people; and innovative people change the world”
Isaacson said.

He added that for Steve Jobs, the greatest lesson was
that you need to have passion for your product.

Steve Jobs had extremely strong leadership skills and
throughout his career he motivated his team to achieve what was not achievable
by them. “Anybody can make things complex; only a genius can make it simple”
Isaacson quoted Steve Jobs. iPod was created with the same idea to make it
simple for the consumers to hear music. If you want to be innovative you need
to have passion for curiosity.

The second speaker of the event was Alan Douville from
Whirlpool who begins his session with video and introductory words about his
company, he shared how whirlpool innovate and collaborate with IBM for
effective consumer and customer engagements. Other speakers include Steve
George from Huntington Bank, Chief architect of Pure Application System Jason
and Peter Haffernan from Ireland.

During the session, IBM launches six new products in the Websphere
family including Websphere Application Server version 8.5 which it named
Liberty, IBM Mobile Foundation suite with Mobile End point’s manager that can
support up to 250,000 end points, Business Process Manager, MQ and Cast Iron Live
that allows developers to create new APIs in few clicks.

IBM also launches Pure Application System that can be up and
running in 4 hours.

In the end, IBM thanked its customers, sponsors and 1300 business
partners who have attended the opening session of Impact 2012. They have also
awarded best business partners, award finalists and best of show award
winner.

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IBM is hosting one of the biggest gatherings of IT experts
and international business leadership at IBM Impact 2012 at
the Venetian Casino Hotel & Resort and The Palazzo on main Las Vegas
Boulevard. The event will start this Sunday April 29 till May 4 and will be
visited by 7500 attendees from over 60 countries worldwide including Royal
Cyber and other IBM Premier Business partners.

The reasons for attending this year’s IBM Impact 2012 are:

1.Meet and Greet

As I mentioned above that Impact 2012
will be visited by 7500 attendees from over 60 countries and that’s a huge
number! You would get chance to meet your previous customers, prospects,
competitors and the industry leaders including IBM leadership and technical
experts for one-on-one meetings and sessions to talk away all your
organizational problems.

2.New Product Launches

IBM and its premier business partners
would launch new products and services at this prime event for a greater
publicity. You would view the latest technology advancements from IBM Business
Partners and get a year’s worth of education from the most experienced business
and technology leaders in the world.

3.Media Coverage

The event will get extensive media
coverage and publicity across television, internet, print and radio. Fifty
analysts and 89 members of the press from 40 countries will attend the event
that will make it the best-covered Impact conference in five years. You would certainly
feel proud being on the event that the world would talk about.

4.Learning

Impact 2012 is also an excellent
platform for learning about new technological advancements in the world of IBM
technologies. Know how you can align your business objectives by participating
in the new business program and interactive business agility symposium to navigate
today’s economy.

5.Prospects & New Networking
Opportunities

You also get chance to network with the
industry leading professionals and build lifetime contacts that provide you new
business opportunities and help you build and maintain greater customer
relationships.

6.You would be in Las Vegas…

Yes Las Vegas and that’s the most
exciting part of the trip, isn’t it? You would be in the Entertainment Capital
of the World, an internationally acclaimed major resort city popular for
gambling, shopping, and fine dining.

Royal Cyber would also be launching Fusion Commerce, a new
product by our WebSphere Commerce team at the event that brings extensive
customization and pre-configuration of eCommerce deployment including
predictable implementation, faster time to market, lower cost of deployment and
rapid ROI.

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Fusion Commerce

E-Commerce is not merely just about exhibiting and merchandizing products online through web but about creating a delighted shopping experience that is all-in-one across all customer touch points. It is about offering an enriched, germane, tailored experience across several supply networks of your business and exploiting the power of your brand and its value unswervingly to your customers.

This blog is not about telling you the advantages of setting up another ecommerce website but focused on how you can use IBM WebSphere Commerce to innovate buyers experience by delivering them products and services at their convenience, with brand new features that’s not just limited to online but can also be used in-store and across all physical and digital touch points.

IBM WebSphere Commerce empowers you to create a powerful customer interaction platform across all digital touch points including mobile, social media and in-store. It’s easy to use tools create and manage precise marketing campaigns, promotions, catalog and merchandising through contextually targeted content and public promotions across multiple sales channels, allowing you to centrally manage a cross-channel strategy.

Some of its key features which could be of great benefit to its users are listed as follows;

Helps you compete more effectively with several features

Lets you drive customers for making purchases on each visit

Employs paid and organic search marketing to increase customers traffic to your site

Makes your average order size grow significantly

Comprehensive integration from fulfillment of order to customer services

Makes easier estimation of potential of online channel with a true e-commerce platform

Offers wide collection of features like catalog, selling, marketing, trading and order management

WebSphere commerce offers tailor-able and integrated package to its clients.

Built on Java EE platform using open standards such as XML and web services, WebSphere Commerce is a single and unified customer platform supporting all business models including B2B and B2C,offering online commerce and collaboration with existing and new customers, and partners through effective management of online trade relationships.

IBM WebSphere Commerce, when used with WebSphere Commerce Express and WebSphere Commerce Professional also provides you additional features such as workspace, empowering you to customize your entire selling process that includes everything you need to develop and test an entire e-commerce website. Its integrated development environment allows developers to build and test customizations to any extent including changing the appearance of your site.

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IBM WebSphere Commerce Feature Pack 4 brings to you several new enhancements to improve your ecommerce sales. The new WebSphere Commerce feature pack 4 includes powerful new storefront capabilities to deliver a smarter shopping experience for your online customers.

These functions are performed using a customized and integrated package to create and manage precision marketing campaigns, promotions, catalog and merchandising across all sales channels, allowing you to centrally manage your multi-channel marketing strategy.

The new WebSphere Commerce Feature pack 4 includes new features such as:

Mobile Commerce Extensions

Facebook Integration

Precision Marketing Enhancements

RESTful Services

Here I would be explaining you these new features in more detail:

Mobile Commerce Extensions

With the increasing usage of shopping over mobile and smart phones, WebSphere Commerce Feature Pack 4 brings Mobile Commerce extensions which enable your users to browse your online store, view side by side product comparisons, promotion codes, check product availability from the inventory, receiving marketing messages and store location information online via online maps, all from their smart phones. They could also check status of their orders, track orders and make money transactions.

Facebook Integration

Facebook is the most powerful platform for social marketing used by millions of people around the world. A product or a service recommendation by a friend affects buying behavior of millions of potential customers. Realizing this importance, WebSphere Commerce new feature pack includes Facebook integration that includes a ‘like’ and ‘send’ buttons on the home and product pages, ‘activity feeds and an option to Connect to Facebook to use Facebook protocol for user authentication and authorization.

Precision Marketing

Precision Marketing allows you to create, execute and analyze your marketing campaigns across multi-channels through powerful analysis tool that enable you to create and measure your marketing strategies across segments, products, channels and brands. It automates your marketing strategies by allowing you to create personalized content based on location, customer behavior and preferences. It allows you to influence your customer purchases and recommend promotions. See IBM Unica for more.

RESTful Services

Representational State Transfer (REST) is a framework used by WebSphere Commerce to develop RESTful applications on web, mobile, kiosks and social applications. These services are used for data mapping, code generation, creating and retrieving user data and generating representation for explicit media types such XHTML and ATOM feeds.

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Organizations today are crowded with number of challenges and threats to keep their business continued successfully and keep up consistent growth. Among those challenges data security issues assume pivotal area of focus as it’s a point of make or break for the organization. It is critically important for organizations to have a foolproof, and reliable messaging infrastructure in place that protects their critical data, proprietary and confidential information and provides absolute security against attackers and intruders.

Messaging infrastructure may include but not limited up to internet and intranet emails, instant messages and voice over internet protocol (VoIP) that have now become necessity of every enterprise. No one would have ever thought about terms like spams, scams, viruses, hacking, government mandatory archiving and other such things when the email systems were first emerged. Now above mentioned factors have become a critical parameter while planning and designing communication system for an organization.

This evolution has led IBM WebSphere MQ becoming the backbone for an enterprise wide, mission critical messaging infrastructure. According to one figure 70% of the today’s world enterprises employ WebSphere MQ to initiate and finalize orders, convey and accept proposals and conduct many other such type of official and non official correspondence and business transactions every day.

WebSphere MQ provides a range of link-level security services, including support for the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) designed to allow the transmission of protected data over an insecure network. These systems offer an added benefit of written proof of communication between two parties which may be used later for any purpose.

Numerous research studies have shown that employees of an organization may surrender their liberty to use phone lines freely rather giving up access to their email accounts.

These days the use of IM system is gaining attention and popularity among most of the enterprises – particularly consumer IM – for business communications is growing on fast pace. The typical user mostly spends two or more hours each day interfacing with some aspect of a messaging system. In short, instant messaging has become a battery to the vast majority of enterprises for their functionality.

Your messaging infrastructure may be victimized by many unidentified errors and flaws during its implementation which may become threat to organizational security leading to performance collapse. Web Sphere MQ Guru is the best solution to such errors providing health check facilities to maintain integrity and security intact throughout communication channels.

IBM has recently revealed a newer version of WebSphere Portal Version 8, offering its users a more seamless, personalized and richer user experience, distinct for each user across a single access point.

With several new features from better analytics, social media integration, more affluent content management and search engine optimization, WebSphere Portal version 8 offers everything you need for deploying and developing a multi channel and exceptional web experience.

The newer IBM WebSphere Portal Version 8 provides a variety of benefits that will not just enhance your user experience but would also boost your productivity and performance.

The latest version also supports signing in to your portal from Google, Yahoo or Facebook id via Open id authentication and provides easy access to your portal from any hand-held device like smart phones such as iPhone, Android and BlackBerry to tablets and iPad – all from a single source code.

Another interesting feature is IBM Forms which empower you to build website forms for collecting and analyzing structured information from your customers, partners and employees and keeps them engaged with dynamic and interactive interface that provides them personalized user experience.

WebSphere Portal Guru provides complete solutions for WebSphere Portal development and administration including troubleshooting support. Their experts can handle complex web projects without any difficulty and can easily help you switch from existing versions to the new version 8, ensuring a successful portal deployment and development.

WebSphere Application Server v8 also referred as WAS v8 is the newest addition to IBM Application server versions, offering ultimate new features and changes compared to existing WAS v7 and widely used WAS v6.1 such as comprehensive open standard-based programming models, flexible and granular security controls and support for hand held devices.

In this blog I will help you understand the benefits of version 8 for your smoother transition from WAS v7 or v6.1 to WAS v8 quick, fast and easier by providing you an overall overview about what’s new, the pros and new features offered by WAS v8.

The v8 delivers complete Java EE 6 support and simplifies directory-based Java EEapplication installation and maintenance. Further it tightens security controls and extends the reach of your applications to any hand-held devices such as smart phones and iPad.

Pros of WAS v8With WebSphere Application Server v8, you can increase your data center efficiency through effective workload consolidation by leveraging your developer skills as they can choose from wide array of open standard-based programming models including geographically dispersed applications.

The WAS v8 proven transactional support will help you maintain transaction integrity and minimize the possibility of losing a business prospect due to failed transactions or system down time. The flexible and granular security controls further protect customer sensitive information and help administrator’s productively secure application environments.

Developers can also reuse and extend legacy and packaged applications using the optional WebSphere Adapters v7.5 and through integrated WebSphere platform that is reliable and scalable.

The best is that you can migrate to advanced WebSphere Application Server v8 configurations without any cost of re-architecting and re-programming using IBM Installation Manager (IM) that has significantly reduced product installation time by 15%, large-topology server creation time by 69% and large-topology cluster-creation time by 31% saving your valuable time and money.